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Diverse teams can not only solve engineering problems more effectively, but the outcomes tend to be more inclusive, as a geographer and feminist scholar explains.
Research shows underrepresented people in STEM studies thrive in learning environments that address their need to belong, feel competent and find meaning in their work.
A negative environment dissuades many women engineering students from staying in the field. Can colleges and universities do anything to reverse the trend?
Engineering is in a better place than in 1989. More women are studying the field, and academic administrators and managers want to hire female engineers. But more work is still needed.
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Professor of Geography and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Penn State
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Associate Director of the Center for Women in Technology and Research Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Computing Education Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering; Chair of the Ontario Network of Women in Engineering, McMaster University
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Research Assistant Professor of Aerospace, University of North Dakota